EAN: 9781529153736

THE TOWER - FLORA CARR KARTONIERT (TB)

'Carr has taken an often overly romanticised historical figure and given her new life and
originality.' THE TIMES 'The Tower is such a vivid  visceral read  you feel you're locked in
the tower alongside the characters  acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed'
TRACY CHEVALIER 'Bold and immediate' TLS They are imprisoned  but not contained. Three women
cross a loch. It is 1567  one of them is pregnant  two of them fretful. The boat takes them to
Lochleven castle in the middle of the water. Awaiting them are courtiers braying for blood 
hellbent on keeping one of them under lock and key: Mary Queen of Scots. In the tower  Mary's
maids Frenchwoman  Cuckoo and watchful Scot  Jane are her only allies  and the chamber their
entire world. A new reality sets in where they are at the mercy of not only their keepers  but
of raging Scotland itself. In the outside world  Mary's kin  Queen Elizabeth claims she can do
little but write. Downstairs  the shrewd jailor-courtier Margaret Erskine places her
daughter-in-law Agnes in the chamber as her pair of eyes. Hope seems futile until the
bewitching Lady Seton arrives. Seton's power shifts everything in the tower and soon a plan is
hatched. But which of them will risk it all to save their mistress? Which woman loves her queen
best? The Tower is a triumphant story of desire  grit  God-given power and wiles from a
striking new voice in historical fiction.

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